The Russellville Democrat., 1887-12-07
CRrsrEs AND CAsuALr1Es.


 TIE bodies of John H. Gowan and his sixteen year-old daughter were found at ten o'clock, on the night of the 29th, at From all aapearances they were suf- located by coal gas on the night of the 25th, as that was the last seen of them.
 EARLY on the morning of the 29th e newly born babe was thrown from a passenger train about half milo north of Pine City, Minn., and was discovered about nine o'clock. The child was born naturally. Its head was bruised by the fall A coroner's jury was summoned.
 MATILDA WOLFE, aged twenty-nine, was arrested at Tifiin O., on the 29th, for the murder of the babe found in the chimney of house few days ago with it's skull crushed. It is said she is the mother of tho child.
 THE New York Court of Appeals has af- firmed the judgemeht of the lower court which condemned Daniel Driscoll to death for the murder of Beezy Garity in tho summer of 1886.
 THE Governor of Pennsylvania has fixed January 26, 1888, as the day for the execu. ton of David L. King, convicted in Clarion County of the murder of man named Dinsmore.
 ON the 30th an explosion of choke damp occurred in colliery in Poremba. Silesia, killing fifteen miners and wounding several others.
 ON the morning of the 1st a general fire alarm was sounded, calling the entire fire department to the Strobridge Litho- graphing Company's building in Cincn- nati Tho flames devoured the entire building, and in less than forty minutes the walls fell in. The loss is total, and will probably be $200.000.
 ON the 1st James H. McGindley, sixty two years old, was sentenced in the United States Court, at Cleveland, O., to ten years' imprisonment for forging pen sion certificates.
 ON the 1st lynchint totook place at Ala mosa, Col, tramp named O'Brion being the victim. He had committed an assault upon young lady.
 A RET. .cHEEKED, blue-eyed, ingenuous- looking Englishman, named Alexander Taylor, twenty-one years old, came from London to New York seven weeks ago, got into the post-office service Q month later, and is now locked up in Ludlow Street jail for stealing letters from the mails.
 A NEW YORK tenement house fire on tho morning of the lst caused panic among its inmates. All escaped uninjured except Joseph Jacobs, aged five, who was burned to death. The damage to the building amounted to S20,o00
 OK tho ist a man giving the name of Arthur O'Keefe told tstory to a Phila- delphia saloon keeper, in which he de- clares himself the murderer of Octavus Cato The murder was committed during xl1 -s~+ ;x,t q 1f owing to the prominence of Cato, who was the leader of the colored men, caused great excitement O'Keefe was arrested.
 ON the 2d Mrs. John Evans, of Scranton, Pa., literally chopped the head of her five year-old boy to pieces. She is believed to be insane.
 ON the 2d fire in the insane asylum at London, Ont, destroyed tho kitchen, laundry and bakery. Much confusion pre- vailed, but tho fire was soon got under control.
 ON the 2d Dan Driscoll, the Whyo gang chief and murderer of Bezy Garrity, was sentenced by Recorder Smyth in New York to be hanged Friday, January 20 next.
 ON the 2d Jake Nimons, colored, was hanged at Mount Pleasant, s. O., for the murder of Mike Plottkin, an Israelte merchant, at Hollyhill, in February last. The drop fell at six o'clock a. m. His neck was broken.
 ON the 2d the locomotive of a freight train on the Philadelphia & Reading rail road exploded near East Mahoney June tion, Pa. Alexander Walker, the en- gineer, was instantly killed, and the fire man and two brakemen were so severely injured that they died while being taken home. The victims all lived at Tamaqua.
 ON the night of the 1st Jumping Dog, the Indian who fired the Cheyenne agency, in Dakota, few days ago, was captured. On the morning of the 2d he attacked his guards and stabbed two of them to death with pair shears and then committed suicide.